Economics of tobacco toolkit: assessment of the economic costs of smoking

Overview

The main purpose of this toolkit is to assist research initiatives to estimate the economic costs of the health effects of cigarette smoking. It will provide step by step guidance on different techniques to estimate smoking-attributable mortality, morbidity, and healthcare expenditures in the framework of the cost-of-illness methodology. Due to lack of data in many developing countries, we are aiming to provide as many alternative estimation techniques as possible, so that countries with various levels of data can adopt one of these techniques to estimate their country-specific smoking-attributable mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs.